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...story. Li was born in an impoverished town about 200 miles (320 km) from Beijing, and as a young man was smart enough to get into Beida, as the Chinese call Peking University. Like so many students of that era - just after the government's assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square - he wanted to go to graduate school in the U.S. "Back then," he has said, "China was a depressing place." Li applied to 20 universities with computer-science programs. Only one, the State University of New York at Buffalo, offered him a scholarship. "So I packed up my winter...
...Critics say that Baidu has won favor with the government through its rigorous self-censorship. (Punch in "Tiananmen Square 1989" and you'll mostly get results about security arrangements for the 2008 Olympics and last year's celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, with only a few sanitized references to the student demonstrations.) Authorities have certainly scrutinized and disrupted Google's China operations far more frequently than Baidu's (one former Google employee calls it "operational harassment"). But it's not at all clear that it made much of a difference...
...This morning in Beijing, Google.cn was returning results for sensitive topics like the Dalai Lama and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. Previously, a search for "Tiananmen" would only return results about the square itself, while noting that because of government restrictions some content was unavailable. Now Google.cn links to pages that include information about the bloody government crackdown in 1989, though the page appears to have fluctuated between uncensored and censored over the course...
...democracy movement and the current Iranian uprising share some common threads. Both were youth-driven popular movements demanding change, led by loose coalitions of disparate factions that lacked strong leadership. And in both cases, the protesters' demands grew as the regimes clamped down. (See pictures of the Tiananmen Square protests...
...Rather than Tiananmen, Iran's opposition is hoping to repeat a different event from 1989 - the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Eastern Europe's communist regimes. Despite the regime's growing threats, opposition leaders remain defiant. Mousavi warned over the weekend that the crackdown will not succeed. "I say openly that orders to execute, kill or imprison Karroubi and Mousavi will not solve the problem," said a statement on his website. Mousavi's nephew was among those killed during the Ashura protests; opposition accounts claim he was assassinated...